PlaysThe Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar WildeJuno and the Paycock, Sean O’Casey*Major Barbara, George Bernard Shaw*The Playboy of the Western World, John Millington Synge*

NonfictionJust a Geek: Unflinchingly Honest Tales of the Search for Life, Love, and Fulfillment Beyond the Starship Enterprise, Wil Wheaton*Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs*Nature, Ralph Waldo EmersonWalden, Henry David Thoreau*

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” “The Reaper and the Flowers,” and “The Village Blacksmith”

Michael Longley: “Ghost Town” and “Wounds”

Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven”

Walt Whitman: “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” from Leaves of Grass

John Greenleaf Whittier: “The Haschish”

William Butler Yeats: “At the Abbey Theatre,” “At Galway Races,” “Byzantium,” “The Circu Animals’ Desertion,” “A Coat,” “Come Gather Round Me Parnellites,” “The Countess Cathleen in Paradise,” “Crazy Jane and the Bishop,” “Cuchalain Comforted,” “Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea,” “Down by the Salley Gardens,” “Easter, 1916,” “He mourns for the Change that has come upon Him and his Beloved, and longs for the End of the World,” “He wishes his Beloved were Dead,” “The Hosting of the Sidhe,” “Imitated from the Japanese,” “An Irish Airman foresees his Death,” “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” “Lapis Lazuli,” “Leda and the Swan,” “Long-legged Fly,” “The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love,” “The Magi,” “Michael Robartes and the Dancer,” “The Old Stone Cross,” “On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Agitation against Immoral Literature,” “On Those that hated ‘The Playboy of the Western World,’ 1907,” “Parnell,” “Parnell’s Funeral,” “Sailing to Byzantium,” “The Second Coming,” “The Stolen Child,” “To Ireland in the Coming Times,” “To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine,” “To the Rose upon the Rood of Time,” “Under Ben Bulben,” “Who Goes with Fergus?,” “The Wild Swans at Coole”

Short Fiction

Sherman Alexie: “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,” “This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” and “The Toughest Indian in the World”